Money making balance

[Charo]

Reducing profitability (overall profitability across all activities) is out of options IMO. We have players with ridiculous amount of assets and if you do that you will put newer players at a severe disadvantage. Plus, I am sure no one would want a capital's price to be "a considerable worth that should be thought out a million times". Shoehorning people into snubs and watching them getting killed by 1 ace no matter what they do is not the way. Some people excel at capships for various reasons and its the fun part for them. Making the fun more difficult for them by slaving them into boring and obnoxious trade mechanics and routes in the name of a "food chain" will only have more negative effects. While profits from missions should be slightly toned down, making them below freighter runs as Champ suggested essentially nullifies the whole work done for the mission system.

Turn things into grinding simulator means turning the game from place of getting fun to another Euro Truck Simulator but this time without gameplay making it a bit funnier

I'm gonna parrot these two points. idk why it's established people, usually with money to throw around, talking about how people with no money need to dump more meaningless time into the game for cash. People are using Delta missions as an example as to why missions need to be nerfed while most other places missions make less than ore trading. I run anti-GB missions in a BC on a station that spawns missions 15k away and I save my pilots to sell somewhere for higher later, but I still make less than ore trading in my 5k. It's already a long, boring grind just to afford anything, but it's still more fun than ore trading. Just for the hell of it I did a round trip with ore the other day, and tbh if money grinding was nerfed to needing 20-30 hours (?????) for a fully kitted battleship I would straight up not play. Like, there's a reason why I don't play EVE or MMOs, because I want to get to the fun without spending half my life staring at the ass end of a Stork.

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